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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82335	The prodigal returned to Scotland, or, A letter, written by a gentleman, to his friend at Montrose wherein he represents, the lover's warfare, the vanity of reposing confidence in rich friends, a short historie of his own misfortunes, the desireableness of conversation, and lastly, the true character of magnanimity, and a noble ambition, and the uncertainty and contempt of riches.	Dempster, George, of Kirktounhill.	1700 (1700)	Wing D984; ESTC R212963	16,422	24

Massare in the Senate especially being contrived by his Confident Brutus And when our own Relations neither out of piety or naturality cannot conceal nor obliterate our offences or misfortunes How may we expect to be made the vox populi especially when such misrepresntati●●s flow from such a Fountain Which commonly are more easily believed and Intertain'd when they are vented by such whom others may be ap● to believe through ignorance of their disposition who speak thus That they talk so as having no dislike or prejudice against us But I being perswaded you know perfectly well what and of whom I write this I leave them to their own fate and the just reward of providence As distress makes men run where they may expect he●p And as that must be the securest harbour to which distrestest vessels make their application So I fly to the choisest of your wholsome advices as the only Asylum and Sanctuary for my aid and safety If misfortunes could make men Philosophers as Afflictions are said to make real Christians I might expect to become wise by experiencing so many But such is the innate rudeness and dullness of my genius that it cannot look through the right end of the perspective and see the Wise hand of Providence directing them Dearest Familiar I know the Premisses and Preceeding Discourse stand in no need of a Commentar to Explain the Genuine Sense thereof you knowing exactly well that it is not propper to be too plain by Discovering my Thoughts to all who may have Occasion to see me in Print but I have Endeavoured alse much as possible Clearness and Ingenuity And because you have possibly met with the like Dispensation of Providence in your Amours that I met with some Years ago I have therefore to comfort you and me taken so much Leasure from my other Bussiness as to set apart one Afternoon and write you my following Thoughts The Design of Lovers should be al 's Latent as the Springs which do inwardly move Mechanick Machins if you either consider the Nature of it or the Inconveniencies that attend a Disappointment I fancie Love proceeds from a Vehement desire of the Object in hopes of a full Satisfaction of pleasure and content therefrom Which pleasure we fondly dote upon and this Love proceedeth from Contemplation But Love may be compared to Hunger which though it is once Satisfied continues no longer so than it hath for a litle time preyd upon what was at first presented to it And like the fire is so far from being Satisfied with what is thrown into it that it is by that new Fewel not only enabled to destroy but likewise forc'd to seek more Aliment for sustaining it's wasting Rage Pleasure in Men is ane Act of the Fancy and Cons●quently of the Soul and certainly these pleasurs which do more immediatly affect the soul must needs be the most Active pleasures and such are those which arise from Contemplation For Contemplation does often drive our souls into Extasies and is so charming that it may be rather said to Ravish then Please committing so open a Rapture upon our Souls that it pulls them almost into a State of Separation Dear and kind Soul You have known these things doubtless by sad experience if ever Love had the Commanding Faculty of your Soul For by Love we go nearest the Image of GOD and the Imitation of our Savior 4. Chap. 1 Epist general of John 7 and 8 verses Beloved let us love one another for love is of GOD And every one that loveth is born of GOD and knoweth GOD. He that leveth not knoweth not GOD For GOD is Love The greatest Inconveniency that attends Lovers while they Sail upon so Vnknowen and Tempestuous Seas as the instability and unconstancie of a Woman's fancy are the false Reports whereunto they may be exposed by Bussie Bodies who may tale a Thousand Lies of them For who can promise that they shall never drop one word in Passion act any thing without a previous Deliberation or never fall under Misinformation And which is yet worse when Misrepresentations are forged against them they are not acquainted by such as either give or receive them and so their Defence becomes wholly imprstable But why need I expect to teach you what Love is or what discouragments Lovers may propos● to themselves before they arrive at the conquest seing you have traced those Paths far more succesfuly than I have done And it has added no small Commendation to your Character That Fancy rather than Ambition or Riches were your choice For what could you have proposed reasonably to your self in so doing For litle can defend us against our present necessities and nothing can defend against the Future And when Riches are piled up they serve either to satisfie Nature and that is easie or to satisfie Fancy and that is Impossible Riches are realy though they remain but like the Manna in that 16 Chap. of Exodus 18 verse Whereof he that gathered much had nothing over and he that Gathered litle had no Lack. Ecclesiasties 5 chap 10 and 11 and 12 verses He that Loveth silver shall not be satisfied with Silver nor he that Loveth abundance with Increase this it also Vainity When goods increase they are increased that eat them And what good is there to the Owners thereof saving the beholding of them with their Eyes The sleep of the Labouring Man is Sweet whether he eat little or much but the abundance of the Rich will not suffer him to sl●ep Such was the Insatiat desire of that Rich King Craesus who wa● said to have had Mountains of Gold and Vast Treasures that he took a great deal of pleasure to see his Gold and thefore called in for all his Exchequer at once whereupon his Subjects finding him to have so Vast a desire for Gold conspired against him and Murthered him And when he was Dead they were pleased thus Reproachfully to Triumph over him Saying he Loved Gold while he was on Life let him once have his fill of it before he be burried and accordingly they melted Gold and poured it down his Throat that it might be knowen how little a Portion of all his great Treasure would satisfie him when Dead when all his Dominions and the Riches therein could not Satisfie his vast Appetite when he was Living Solon gave him this Advice when he Enquired at him if he thought him a happy Man which Sentence made him set King Cyrus at Liberty when he was Captivated by him He gave him this Answer That no Man could be called happy till Death came as you have it prettily expressed by Invenal thus ultima Semper Expectanda dies homini Dicique Beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet The day of Death should still be thought upon And no Man can be happy till it come Dearest Familiar If at any time hereafter either Fortunatly or Unluckily you six your Contemplation upon a Woman whom Providence hath